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L. KAHN.

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Patented 001;. 18, 1887.

In? v w. gt/ivi.enter4 Witnesses Attorney UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE3 LAZHRD HAHN, or HAMILTON, OHIO, AssIeNoE TO Ir. a L. HAHN a BROTHERS, or SAME PLAGE.

COOKING-STOVE.

SPZECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,892, dated Gotoloer 18, 1887.

' Application filed December 30, 1886. Serial No. 222,958. (No model.)

vided with roasting-spits; and the improve ment will be readily understood from the fol-` lowing deseription, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the oven portion of a cooking-stove illustrating my improvement; and Fig. 2, a plan of the contiguous portions of the spit and arm, the bearing in the arm being shown in section. v

In the drawings, A indicates the oven of a cooking-stove; B, the door thereof; C, the usual hinge of the door; D, a segmental shelf or plate lying upon the bottom of the oven and pivoted therein and adapted to swing in and out of the oven; E, the pivot of the shelf, where the shelf is articulated to the oven-bottom, the pivot in the present case presenting an npwardly-open square axial socket; F, a turn-latch upon the oven-door, catching into a slot in one edge of the shelf, this catch serving as a means by which the shelf may be locked at will to the door, so as to move in and out as the door is closed and opened in the common manner; G, a bearing-seat formed with or secured to the wall of the oven over the pivot E, such bearing-seat being intended to receive a removable journal-bearing, the

free to move upward therein, and having its I foot squared and stepped in the pivot-socket of the shelf; K, an arm reaching Outward from the mast and provided at its outer end with a horizontal bearing; L, a spit projecting horie zontally at right angles to this arm and provided at its inner end with a horizontal jonrnal engaging the bearing in the free end ofthe arm; and M, the supporting attachment between the end of the arm and the end of the spit, the same consisting of the horizontal journal upon the end ofthe spit and the horizontal bearing on the end of the arm, as clearly yfshown in Fig. 2, whereby the spit may be roshould be somewhat heavier upon one side4 than upon the other; but the spit and'roast may be readily turned by hand, and the friction referred to will serve in retaining the roast in any new position of rotation into which it may be adjusted. When the arm K is in the position indicated in the drawings, the roast is practically out of the oven and in a position for convenient inspection and dressing, after which the roast may be pushed inward, the arm taking up a position against the oven-wail, while the spit with its roast will take a position at right angles to the ovenwall. The roast with the spit and arm and mast may be lifted vertically ont of engagement with the bearing H, and the entire spit apparatus thereby removed from the oven; and in putting the roast upon the spit the spitting may be done before putting the spit apparatus into the oven.

When not in use, the spit parts may be laid away, including the removable bearing I-I, which may be removed from the bearingseat, thus leaving the wall of the oven substantially free from obstructions.,

By means of the squaresocket engagement of the foot of the mast with the pivot of the shelf the spit with its roast is automatically v moved in and out of the oven with the shelf, whereby a dripping-pan placed upon the shelf may follow the movements of the roast and catch the drip therefrom at all times. The

latch F serves, as usual, to connect the door with the shelf, so that the shelf moves out and vIO lin with the opening and closing of thedoor,

and obviously the entire arrangement results in the roast and drippingpan being swung in and out of the oven by the mere manipulation of the door, While at the' same time the latch may be disconnected, so that the door may be opened for the inspection of the roast without withdrawing either the roast or shelf.

I claim as my invention- 1. A bearing with 'a vertical axis, a piece journaled thcrein,'and a horizontal spit connected with such journal-piece and adapted for oscillation upon the axis of such vertical bearing, combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. An oven, a vertical bearing at the wall thereof, a mast journaled in such bearing, an armr projecting horizontally from such mast, and a spit projecting horizontally at right angles from such arm, combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. An oven, a segmental shelf pivoted upon the floor thereof and adapted to be oscillated into and out of the oven, a spit, and a support for said spit journaled in the oven, combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

c 4. An oven,'a segmental shelf pivoted to the floor thereof, a spit, and a support for the spit having a journal disposed in the axis of the pivot of said shelf', so as to oscillate with the shelf, combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth. A 5. An oven, an oven-door, a segmental shelf pivoted to the floor of the oven, a spit, and spitsupport connected with and arranged to oscillate with said shelf, and a latch upon the door adapted to engage said shelf and oscillate said shelf and spit as the door is opened and closed, combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

6. Oven A, bearing-seat G upon the wall thereof, bearing H, separably engaging such seat, mast J, engaging such bearing, arm K, and spit L, combined substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

vLAZARD KAHN.

Witnesses:

J. W. SEE, W. A. SEWARD. 

